diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 575a9c498d5..2c8f4a9de52 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@
     <surefire.fork.timeout>900</surefire.fork.timeout>
     <aws-java-sdk.version>1.11.199</aws-java-sdk.version>
     <hsqldb.version>2.3.4</hsqldb.version>
+    <frontend-maven-plugin.version>1.5</frontend-maven-plugin.version>
+    <!-- the version of Hadoop declared in the version resources; can be overridden
+    so that Hadoop 3.x can declare itself a 2.x artifact. -->
+    <declared.hadoop.version>${project.version}</declared.hadoop.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencyManagement>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-ui/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-ui/pom.xml
index 032a9a2cf7d..c604af77aef 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-ui/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-ui/pom.xml
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
           <plugin>
             <groupId>com.github.eirslett</groupId>
             <artifactId>frontend-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>1.2</version>
+            <version>${frontend-maven-plugin.version}</version>
             <configuration>
               <workingDirectory>${webappDir}</workingDirectory>
             </configuration>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-ui/src/main/webapp/.bowerrc b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-ui/src/main/webapp/.bowerrc
index 5b0b07d756b..959e1696e7b 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-ui/src/main/webapp/.bowerrc
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-ui/src/main/webapp/.bowerrc
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 {
   "directory": "bower_components",
-  "analytics": false,
-  "resolvers": [
-    "bower-shrinkwrap-resolver-ext"
-  ]
+  "analytics": false
 }